Sentence examples for melody called from inspiring English sources

There was quiet background music, a traditional melody called "Falling Flowers" about the death of a hero.

Mr. Lang played a duet with the American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, then a haunting traditional Chinese melody called "My Motherland".

The 20 short variations are based on a popular Baroque melody called "La Folia," which Corelli used in his Violin Sonata (Op. 5, No. 12).

Musically, it's one long, lilting drone, taken from a traditional folk melody called Great Selchie of Shule Skerry (recorded by Judy Collins on her second album).

The lawsuit notes that in the late 1800s, two sisters, Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill, wrote a song with the same melody called "Good Morning to All".

As it turned out, after a wall in her house collapsed and she slowly moved to flee, Hiroyuki Maruki, 59, a sake store owner and the president of a group dedicated to preserving an old melody called "Kamaishi Seashore Song," came by looking for her.

Rachel McRady of Wetpaint complimented the song's inspiration melody, calling it "basically reduces us to tears every time we hear it".

Noteworthy here is the versatile polyphonic style of the three-stringed Kyrgyz komuz lute, based on extensive development of short melodies called kernel tunes.

Montero became known for solo recitals that, in addition to standard pieces in the classical piano repertoire, included improvisations based on melodies called out by audience members.

They will demonstrate their skill at improvisation, in which they base their extemporizing on a collection of motifs and melodies called the Radif.

The family moved to New Haven, Conn., where he was taunted for being Jewish; where his father, a tailor, abandoned them; and where he heard a vaudeville saxophonist perform a tune called "Dreamy Melody".